११ मार्च, २०१९

It's a Monday — the most magical time of the week... for the NYT crossword. This harsh truth should be saved for Friday or Saturday, when the children cannot see.

३६ टिप्पण्या:

James K म्हणाले...

Maybe Santa doesn't live at the North Pole, he just has his factory there, where he exploits his underpaid and overworked height-challenged workers. AOC can enlighten us.

jaydub म्हणाले...

I told my kids about it, but they're in their 40's. Not sure if they still believe.

Ken म्हणाले...

This is simple. Santa does not live at the North Pole, which is a myth our culture created fairly recently. He lives in Lapland.

rehajm म्हणाले...

Wait...WHAT?!?

Obadiah म्हणाले...

My wife and I decided not to lie to our kids. We told them Santa is pretend, and it's fun to pretend, but your presents really come from people who love you. But keep it to yourselves, so you don't spoil it for other kids. They were cool with it and liked being in on the secret. It was the grown ups who thought this was akin to being an axe murderer.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

Peter Noone lives at the North Pole? I thought he was British.

mccullough म्हणाले...

Nowhere Man

David53 म्हणाले...

I lived in North Pole, Alaska for several years. As far as we were concerned it was the North Pole. There was indeed a Santa Claus House filled with Christmas stuff and they would post letters sent to Santa from kids in the lower 48.

Kevin म्हणाले...

66 Across:

Who conspired with the Russians to steal the 2016 election, in reality.

Not Sure म्हणाले...

OK, this is obligatory:

NYT goes full Trump.

gadfly म्हणाले...

Who lives at the North Pole really? Herman's Hermits, Henry the Eighth, no one, polar bears? I'll go with polar bears.

Bill Peschel म्हणाले...

Children work the New York Times crossword puzzle?

They really are overachievers up there.

richlb म्हणाले...

One thing I learned looking at this - I could probably do the Monday Times puzzle. Looks slightly harder than the old TV Guide puzzles I used to do.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Don't tell progressives Santa isn't real.

Whirred Whacks म्हणाले...

Fun theme, and a quick solve (6:08 for me).

And your pal, Rex Parker, didn’t crap all over it!

peacelovewoodstock म्हणाले...

The Monday NYT crossword is the easiest of the week, they get progressively more difficult through Saturday.

Sunday is about as challenging as Thursday, but is a bigger puzzle.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Terrible bigots! They are shaming the innocent kids who dream that they are born as Santa Clauses and were awaiting their re-assignment surgery day.

I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...

Almost all of the editorial staff at the NY Times are Christianity haters. So no shock to me but very petty and vindictive which is par for the course for most far left libruls.

GTB म्हणाले...

Plenty of people live in North Pole. It may not be THE north pole, but it's an actual City just outside of Fairbanks. There is also a Santa House there.

https://www.northpolealaska.com/

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"Children work the New York Times crossword puzzle? They really are overachievers up there."

Well, we're just talking about the Monday puzzle. That's my point.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Santa lives at the north magnetic pole.

Molly म्हणाले...

(eaglebeak)

Bring back Eugene T. Maleska! (or even Will Weng!)

rhhardin म्हणाले...

I opened a twitter account, made one tweet replying to Scott Adams, and my account was restricted for violating twitter terms of service.

iowan2 म्हणाले...

One thing I learned looking at this - I could probably do the Monday Times puzzle. Looks slightly harder than the old TV Guide puzzles I used to do.

As someone else noted, Monday is easy and they get progressivly more difficult.
Crosswords are a learned skill. Lots of daily local papers have easier ones. Work those and look at NYT, early in the week. Lots of words get reused over and over, you'll start to see the pattern.
My Mother did the word puzzles in both daily papers we got, in ink, including Sunday's NYT. She was a farm wife, and WWII nurse. (also read constantly)

BudBrown म्हणाले...

Lara moved?

Linda म्हणाले...

I always feel reasonably intelligent on Monday doing the puzzle - but by Friday, Saturday and Sunday - not so much!

gilbar म्हणाले...

i don't understand; are they saying that all the elves just work there? and commute?

n.n म्हणाले...

Santa is a metaphor for the innocence of youth, which is tempered with age and the Judeo-Christian teaching to recognize and separate logical domains.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Disagreeing with Scott Adams
https://scottadamswrong.blogspot.com/

Twitter won't work, maybe blogger will.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

I think I've never done a crossword puzzle. I certainly don't remember any.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

g u r u s
u r i n e
r i c i n
u n i x s
s e n s e

That's a word square, though, same across and down. ricin as a verb for poison (v).

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

No one lives at the North Pole, not even Superman? My reality is shattered.

Mr. Fabulous म्हणाले...

(World Famous Lurker says....)

Those posting upthread have it right,the NYT crossword gets more difficult as the week goes on. I seldom work the Monday - Wednesday puzzles any more, as they are not a challenge for me. It was asserted in a thread the other day, the one discussing mental activity as we get older, that crossword puzzles do not help keep the mental faculties sharp, as they are really just memorization. I would, to some extent, agree with this statement for most daily crossword puzzles in newspapers. The NYT daily crossword from Thursday through Sunday I would put into a different class though. I think they are more mentally challenging and stimulation for several reasons. These include tricky questions that memorization doesn't help with, multi-word answers (and the Times doesn't indicate when the answer is more than one word. Some other puzzles will tell you in the question), and slang usage common to those living in the NE, but uncommon elsewhere in the US.

Earlier in the thread, and in the post the other day, I noted several comments about someone the poster knew doing their crossword puzzles in pen. I too always use a ballpoint pen when working them, but it's not to show off (although I am a bit of a showoff.) It's for several practical reasons. The biggest one is that the graphite from a pencil smears, and it's easy to get your hands pretty dirty if you are doing the puzzle with a pencil. Next, the eraser really doesn't help much on newsprint - you can't cleanly erase an incorrect answer, and the smear from the erasure distracts and can hide other boxes in the puzzle. Third, as you use the pencil, the point dulls, and you either need to resharpen it frequently, or the letters start to get wider as you write, putting even MORE graphite on the paper to smear around. Lastly, I normally have many pens at home, but I would have to hunt for a pencil (there is probably one in the workshop), and would need to sharpen it with a knife, as I don't have a pencil sharpener.

I live in Colorado, and a number of years ago, the 2 major dailies - The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News - "merged". For me and many others, this was bad news (!) as the Post is decidedly much more liberal than the RMN was. The one bright spot is that they merged both the comics and puzzle sections, offering all of the puzzles and comics in the Post. To this day, I think the only puzzle they have dropped is/was the Sunday chess puzzle, which was a disappointment to me. They do run 2 daily crosswords now, but the NYT puzzle is really the only one worth the effort, except for Sunday. On Sunday, they run the LA Times Sunday puzzle in addition to the NYT Sunday puzzle, and it is normally about as challenging as the Times Sunday puzzle. They also run the "Jumble" (like Scrabble) puzzle and the "Cryptoquip", which is a simple substitution cipher. These are not really as hard as they look, and I normally block out the clue before attempting the puzzle.

Kevin म्हणाले...

i don't understand; are they saying that all the elves just work there? and commute?

Like elsewhere, it's an increasingly remote workforce.

You get your work into FedEx by the cutoff, and you can do Etsy in your spare time.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

one of Santa's reindeer is a Pole Dancer...

...and possibly Prancer and Vixen.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

he gave them stripper's names wtf?